Combined tie-plate and rail anchor



Nov. 27, 1928. 1,693,275

E. J. HENGGI COMBINED TIE PLATE AND RAIL ANCHOR Filed Dec. 31, 1926 a?IN V EN T 0R. M 24W M A TTORNEYS.

Patented Nov. 27, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. HENGGI, OF OHARA TOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED TIEPLATE AND RAIL ANCHOR.

Application filed December 31, 1926.

clasping the base of the rail and extending beneath the same so as tocontact with the side surface of the tie to prevent rail creep. In sometypes of rail anchors, the portion thereof extending below andtransversely of the rail base is bowed or extended downwardly to preventthe anchor riding up on the tie and thus causing rail fracture, but suchdownwardly extending portions of the anchor tend to hammer the frozenballast or track bed in winter, thus loosening the rails from theanchors. In the case of anchors unprovided with the downwardly extendingportion the tendency of the anchor to ride the tie is marked.

In my improved device the tie plate and the anchor comprise one and thesame structure, the tie plate being provided with portions which anchorthe rail against creeping.

In the preferred form of myinvention the tie plate is provided with adepending flange which abuts against the side of the tie and thusrelieves the spikes, or other element by means of which the tie plate isfastened to the tie, from the thrusts exerted by'the rail under movingtrafiic.

Other novel features of construction, and also of arrangement of partswill appear from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein I have illustrated the bestembodiment of the principles of my invention now known to me, Fig. 1 isa top plan view showing the rail anchored by the tie plate and the platesecured to the tie; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 isalso an elevation taken at right angles from Fig. 2.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 1 represents the cross tie and 2the rail. The combined tie late and rail anchor is mounted on the tieansecured thereto as by spikes. Thus Serial No. 158,209.

3 is the plate portion which bears on the tie and is secured thereto byspikes 4 driven through holes in the plate into the tie. 5 is anabutment lip formed on the top surface of the plate and against whichone side edge of the rail base bears. At one or more points on the otherside of the rail the tie plate is provided with an inturned jaw 6 underwhich the rail base is forced until the opposite edge of the rail basemay be snapped down against the abutment lip 5. The jaw 6 has a wedgedengagement with the rail base which prevents relative movement betweenthe tie plate andthe rail longitudinally of the rail.

The jaws 6 may be made by cutting the material of the plate to form atongue of the metal and bending such tongue upwardly and inwardly,substantially as shown to form.

the gripping jaw.

' The end of the plate'opposite the direction of travel on the rail isprovided with a vertically depending flange 7 which abuts against theside of the tie and thus communicates the creeping thrusts directly fromthe rail to the tie without imposing the same on the spikes or othermeans whereby the tie plate is attached to the tie.

8 represents spikes driven through holes in the tie plate into the tiewith their heads engaging the rail base at the edge which engages thelip 5. 7

It is evident that the rail is anchored to the tie plate and cannotcreep without taking the tie with it, which of course is prevented bythe embedment of the tie in the ballast.

The combined tie plate and anchor may be rolled with the abutment lip 5formed on its top surface and the plate then sheared to form one or moretongues which are then bent up to form gripping jaws. Or the plate maybe cast, forged or otherwise formed.

It is evident that my unitary device efficiently performs the functionsof a tie plate and a rail anchor. This fact results in a marked savingin material to be purchased and the labor costs of the track gang arealso greatly reduced.

What I desire to claim is A tie plate consisting of a rectangularmetallic plate having an upstanding rib extending between oppositeedges, said rib forming an abutment for one edge of a rail base, therail base the edge of the plate opposite the plate having a slitextending inwardly from rebent portion extending downwardly at the edgefacing said abutment and parallel right angles to the body of the plate.10

to the adjacent edge, the material between Signed at Pittsburgh, Pa,this 28th day of said slit and adjacent edge being bent up- December,1926. I wardly and toward the abutmentto form en- V gaging means for theopposite sides of the ED'WARD J. HENGGI.

